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The silente man still suffers wrong.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Silence gives consent.

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time.

Speech is great; but silence is greater.

Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

When they hold their tongues they cry out.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

He sees only night, and hears only silence.

Silence is the mother of Truth.